Berkley Center

Katherine Marshall provides reflections on the 2019 G20 Interfaith Forum and its relevance for the G20 Summit. This piece introduces a series of reflections on the G20 Interfaith Forum from faith leaders and policymakers.

Peter Henne describes how the United States and Russia have drawn on faith as part of their geopolitical struggles and asserts that while it is difficult to untangle the influence of military, economic, and cultural factors, the religious soft power of the United States and Russia does matter.

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk explains why the increasingly authoritarian and overtly Islam-based policy of Turkey cannot be regarded as benign religious soft power or public diplomacy. Rather, its religious soft power is best characterized in terms of ambivalence.